Am I a casualty of the year of the tiger? Some fortune tellers would have said so. My father who was born in the year of the tiger is always nervous when the tiger year comes around. As far as I remember, fortune tellers foretold that tigers faced danger in tiger year. But this tiger year is different. They said it was the family member of the tiger that would be in danger. Well, in short, a doctor diagnosed me with breast cancer in April. Is this a fulfillment of the fortune teller's prediction, or was it a mere coincidence? I believe it's neither. God has a purpose for me, and the people around me, that I should be visited by cancer.
I thank God for the wisdom to follow the Ministry of Health call for women to get regular mammogram after 40 years old. I thank God for a doctor who explained to me and convinced me to have an irregular shaped fibroid checked further through a biopsy. The way I see it, it is a blessing that God arranged events to happen in such a way that a diagnosis of breast cancer did minimal disruption in my life. The cancer cell was still very small and confined to the small area. Surgery was minimally invasive. Recovery was fast beyond anybody's imagination. Adjuvant therapy was a breeze. Even though I was in the midst of final exam and final project at the time of diagnosis and surgeries, God saw to it that the last semester of my graduate school was not compromised. I am now in the last leg of radiotherapy, I don't foresee that things will go awry the rest of the treatment.
To prevent giving my father a mental blow, this has been kept from him. I don't know how long it will take from the publishing of this entry till news reach my hometown. I am praying that God will use this to rid my family members of any superstitious beliefs that have plagued their Christian walk.
I have not sorted out what God's purposes are. But I trust it will unfold itself in good time. I only know the tiger might be crouching ready to attack. However, it's not my body he is after, but the souls of people who believe in satan's deceits.
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